Fox News ignored years of racist and "sadistic" remarks from a former employee because she "knew too much" about wrongdoing by ex-chairman Roger Ailes, an amended lawsuit says.

Those allegations emerged Tuesday when a third black Fox News employee joined a racial discrimination lawsuit against the network — adding to the avalanche of scandals the station now faces.

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Monica Douglas, Fox News' manager for credit collectors, alleges that former comptroller Judy Slater subjected her to racism and cruelty on the job, and pressured her not to report it.

According to the amended court filing, Slater expressed "an unwillingness to even be near black people." She complained about Douglas having "black eyes" and not resembling the "Aryan race," and called Douglas' neighborhood in Brooklyn "the murder capital of the world."

The suit says Slater also constantly mocked Douglas for being a breast cancer survivor, calling her "cancer girl," "boob girl" and "the one-boobed girl."

She allegedly once told Douglas, "Your boobs look like they are different sizes — oh, that's right, you only have one boob." She also allegedly complained that Douglas was "high maintenance" and "increasing everyone's healthcare premiums" with her cancer treatment.

Douglas still went to Fox's general counsel Dianne Brandi about Slater, starting in 2014, but "nothing was done," the filing says.

Instead, Brandi said she believed Slater was not racist, and that Slater "knew too much to be fired," apparently referring to her knowledge of the scandals tied to Ailes.

The amended complaint comes as Bill O'Reill loses advertisers over a report on his sexual harassment lawsuits. (Andy Kropa/AP)

Slater remained at Fox until she was fired last month, with the station saying in a statement it takes such complaints "very seriously." Fox claimed, contrary to court papers, that it fired Slater "within two weeks" of learning about her behavior.

Douglas joined the lawsuit the same day eight more advertisers left "The O'Reilly Factor" after a report about sexual harassment from its host, Bill O'Reilly. A total of 10 have fled since Monday.

The original suit, filed last week by two other black women at Fox News, alleged "top-down racial harassment" in the payroll department. The women accused Slater of habitually tossing off racist comments about blacks as well as Chinese, Indians and Mexicans.

All of this comes while the feds probe Fox for allegedly hiding its sexual harassment settlements from investors.

Ailes resigned last year after an internal investigation into years of sexual harassment allegations. He is now the target of a $30 million lawsuit from former employee Andrea Tantaros, who accused Ailes of running the right-wing news network like "a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult."

In a statement about the amended lawsuit, Fox News said it takes "complaints of this nature very seriously" and "took prompt and effective remedial action in terminating Judy Slater" before the suit was filed.

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"There is no place for conduct like this at Fox News, which is why Ms. Slater was fired," the statement said.